Ute Mountain Reservation

The Ute Mountain Reservation is an 864-square-mile Native American reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and small parts of Utah, home to one of the three tribes of the Ute nation. The reservation consists of 553,008 acres of land in Montezuma and La Plata Counties in Colorado and San Juan County in New Mexico, and most of the reservation's 1,687 inhabitants (as of 2000) live in the government seat of Towaoc.